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The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s.
Dec 14, 1984 · The Cotton Club: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee. Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.
- (20K)
- Crime, Drama, Music
- Francis Ford Coppola
- 1984-12-14
The movie takes place in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, where Irish and Jewish gangsters battled the Italians for the rackets. Most of their intrigues were played out in public, in flashy settings like the Cotton Club, a Harlem nightclub that featured the nation's most talented black entertainers on stage -- playing before an all-white audience.
The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix Dwyer (Richard Gere) falls for Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), the stunning girlfriend of famous...
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- Francis Ford Coppola
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- Richard Gere
The Cotton Club (1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, the people that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made the venue famous....
- 4 min
- 263.7K
- Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
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Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
